GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| sleek | slick |
| amenable | liable to be brought to account : answerable |
| bivouac | a usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter |
| mediocre | of moderate or low quality, value, ability, or performance : ordinary |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |
| seemly | good-looking |
| bog | wet spongy ground |